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Carly Fiorina has a family connection to investigations into ’90s Clinton scandals

The daughter of the man directly responsible for Kenneth Starr investigating the Clintons is now gunning to keep Bill and Hillary from returning to the White House.

Why Is Russia Reburying So Many Dead People?

In the last quarter century, Russia has repeatedly attempted to reclaim the ashes of its émigrés and bring them home, after they have been silent for decades.

All The Ways 2016 Contenders Want to Change the Constitution

Proposed amendments include:  Ending birthright citizenship, letting states define marriage and overturning Citizens United.

Islamic State beheads elderly Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra

Not far from the spectacular Roman ruins he had spent decades safeguarding, 82-year-old Khaled Asaad met a brutal end at the hands of the militants of Islamic State, relatives and colleagues said Wednesday.

New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger Views

President Ford "Offended", Kissinger "Almost Blind with Rage" over Israeli Behavior during 1975 Talks over Sinai

DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President

Rumors about his racial ancestry formed a subplot that played out during his lifetime.

Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe

"It was either torture or mutilation."

'Heritage Act' cited by Bobby Jindal admin to defend Confederate statues apparently doesn't exist

“Governor Jindal opposes the tearing down of these historical statues."

The real Profumo scandal: Book claims Russian spy 'photographed top secret documents'

The Profumo Affair – one of Cold War Britain’s most famous political scandals – was a much greater threat to the UK’s security interests than previously understood.

Shinzo Abe Echoes Japan’s Past World War II Apologies but Adds None

in a potentially contentious break with previous expressions of contrition by Japanese leaders, he did not offer a new apology of his own.

'Stonewall' trailer critics: Film whitewashes history

Many LGBT groups are saying that Emmerich’s film whitewashes the story and erases the important role that transgender people of color played in the riots. 

Did Shakespeare smoke weed?

Reports spread this week that the English language’s most celebrated writer might have smoked marijuana, but the fuss only reveals how little is known about the Bard of Avon.

DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life

Long before Lucy Mercer, Kay Summersby or Monica Lewinsky, there was Nan Britton, who scandalized a nation with stories of carnal adventures in a White House coat closet and endured a ferocious backlash for publicly claiming that she bore the love child of President Warren G. Harding.

Recording of MLK's 1st 'I Have a Dream' speech discovered

Before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.

The LA Times features a fascinating retrospective on Watts, 50 years later

In the half-century since South Los Angeles exploded in a violent uprising, the civil rights movement splintered, whites fled to the suburbs, African Americans’ power waxed and waned, Watts became 70% Latino.

What History Teaches Us About Trump's Lead in Polls

For now, Donald Trump continues to be the "Teflon Don" of the 2016 presidential race, with very early indicators showing his frontrunner status is still intact after the first GOP debate. But just how much does it matter?

West Point historian, in full military dress, explains that slavery was the cause of the Civil War

Col. Ty Seidule, head of the department of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point "lowers the boom,” says Salon, on “idiots” who think slavery wasn’t the cause.

Has Nefertiti's tomb finally been found?

Nefertiti has continued to capture our collective imagination throughout the ages. No trace has been found of the legendary "beautiful one" who ruled across Egypt at her husband's side... until, possibly, now.

Children of Ethel Rosenberg demand their mother be exonerated

by HNN Editor

In an op ed in the NYT, the Metropol brothers -- sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the accused atomic spies, claim that grand jury testimony that was just released exonerates their mother.

Rare silent Native American movie of 1920s attracting a lot of interest

A nearly 100-year-old movie, which showcases 300 Kiowa and Comanche people from Kansas and Oklahoma, is now showing on Netflix.